Center for Jewish Learning

The Center for Jewish Learning (CJL) serves as a community resource to facilitate and convene the Jewish community around issues pertaining to Jewish education; to provide Jewish educational opportunities for individuals and institutional support for educational organizations; to enrich existing community educational programming; and to serve as a catalyst for new initiatives.

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Upcoming Events

Israel’s education system is a study in irony. The talk will highlight aspects of education’s economic impact and focuses on a number of misconceptions about the state of education in Israel. It will provide an overview of achievements and failings in Israel’s primary, secondary, and higher education systems.

Join the community for a special Shabbat evening with author and Kansas City religious leader, Rabbi Mark Levin. Rabbi Levin’s book will be available that evening for a suggested $20 donation. This event is open to the community. Everyone is welcome to join!

Recent News

The Center for Jewish Learning will present “Telling It Like It Is: Education and Its Impact in Israel” with Professor Dan Ben-David, founder of the Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research and a senior faculty member at Tel-Aviv University. The January 23 talk...

Two prominent proponents of pluralism in Israel, Rabbi Gilad Kariv and Dr. Yizhar Hess, will discuss what is happening on the ground in Israel during a Nov. 13 panel discussion at the Kaplan Feldman Complex (12 Millstone Campus Drive). Rabbi Kariv and Dr. Hess are...